Unfortunately, I have a correction to my last posting. It seems that my "no audio bug" was not completely corrected by the latest firmware update. Occasionally, when I switch on my digital coaxial CD player and Outlaw 970 I hear nothing. I have even experienced intermittent freezes.
Thinking about this issue, I look back to my semi-conductor manufacturing equipment experience where there are inherit hardware bugs that are sometimes corrected by software tweaks. Although sometimes the software tweaks do correct the hardware bugs, many times they alleviate the problem, but do not 100% fix the problem. Rather than replace the faulty hardware because it is too costly, we would tweak the software until there was a happy median. The system hardware bugs would still sporadically occur, but very infrequently. If they did, we would have a work around embedded in the software.
I'm wondering, is this what is happening to the 970?